Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Alternative combination: Cancer (Glebocarcinus) kaedei
Full reference: H. Karasawa. 1990. Decapod crustaceans from the Miocene Mizunami Group, central Japan. Part 2. Section Oxyrhyncha, Cancridea and Brachyrhyncha. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 17:1-33
Belongs to Platepistoma according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Karasawa 1990 and Karasawa 1993
Sister taxa: Platepistoma imamurae, Platepistoma macrophthalmous
Type specimen: MFM9026. Its type locality is Matsugase, Mizunami City, which is in a Burdigalian marine horizon in the Yamanouchi Formation of Japan.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (7 collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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